Holiday 1

On the first day of their Hajj holiday, all the kids come around and say, Happy Holiday, and then you give them candy. Yes, it's like trick or treating. Susan enjoys giving the candy out and seeing the kids. She is pretty in her K dress.

grill 2

These are my famous hamburgers. I can not tell my friends I made hamburgers b/c they all get mad b/c I did not invite them. I'm gettin' hungry.

grill 1

This is my grill. I made a model of it out of cardboard and then took it to a metal craftsman. It works fantastic!!! helps me deal with culture frustration sometimes.

village 9

The government put a big generator in the village so people will have electricity at night until 11pm. The light at night is really nice but I told him if he gets a satelite and TV like some others have, I am not coming back.

village 8

I gave Moose a small mp3 player. It has the NT in Arabic on it. He likes to listen to it at night, and he really enjoys it. I hope that the stories will penetrate his heart and he will come to believe fully.

village 7

Megan helping our host make dulma. They cook big green leaves until they are soft, then put rice with spices in them and roll them up and cook them all. As you can see everything is done on the ground. No work tables.

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Brianna is helping harvest and get things ready for supper. She is a super girl.

village 5

Mike will be good and hungry by the time he cuts enough wood to get a good fire going. Mike is a new teacher also.

village 4

Getting a fire ready to cook dinner. That is my grill in the background there. I had it made here. The locals have never seen anything like it, but they sure like to eat the meat after it's done.

village 3

The kids love going to the village and exploring and finding things to eat. I think all the black berries are gone.

village 2

Susan is preparing walnuts to eat. There are lots of huge (english) walnut trees in this area. It is traditional to sit and have tea and walnuts when visiting.

village 1

This is Laura one of our new teachers, along with Nora and Megan. This was their first trip to our village.

Village Girls

Megan had a blast playing in the village on our recent visit. She played in the springfed creek, ate lots of blackberries, cracked walnuts, and observed the honey being harvested. Her hands are still black a week later from the walnuts. Our honey friends had her and Brianna special kids bee outfit made so they could watch. They are a little spoiled.

Bee Boxes

Here's our bee friend in the mountains of K-stan with his bee boxes. Notice the little black solar light on the right. They have these around in an effort to keep the bears out of the honey at night.

Honey

We got to watch our friends harvest honey on our trip to the village recently. Hard, hot work!

Harvesting Honey

King and Queen Bee

These are a couple of our friends. He deals in bees and is one of the best bee keepers in this area of the world. His youngest daughter is named "queen bee".

Village brooms

These two cute kids wanted to pose for a picture. A lady had just finished scraping all the seeds off of the end of these broom plants on the piece of wood. They will then tie up several pieces together to make a broom. They K's still haven't figured out to put a handle on the broom yet.

Sifting sunflower seeds

Megan and her village friend are sifting through sunflower seeds in the village.

Friends

The girls made friends with Naomi and Jada, twins from Britain, at the pool. They were a foursome!

Girls

My girls are growing up so fast! A beautiful pic of us after a full day of swimming and relaxing in front of a beautiful sunset.

Slip and slide

Water slides were on the agenda every afternoon! They had a blast!

I did it!

There was a 50 meter pool at the hotel where we vacationed. Megan is taking after her Daddy and was determined that she was going to make it all the way across. She did it and this is her proud "I did it!" look.

Buried Alive

I buried Megan in the sand. She was a little anxious because she was so close to the sea and the waves kept crashing in.

Sandy squid

The girls and Tim spent lots of time making this squid and enjoying some fun in the sun.